| TITLE:
| Coot pair about to mate(?)
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| INFO:
| "Photographed on the shore just to west of the Tern Hide. I'd been photographing Shelducks fighting and chasing further away on the lake (see other images) - hence the high ISO with high shutter speed - when this pair of Coots which had been mooching around in the water nearby decided to come ashore, seemingly to mate. I got on to them quickly just as the male mounted the female, which assumed a very submissive posture with its head and beak tucked tight in below its chest."
March 2011
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| TECH:
| Nikon D700, Nikkor 200-400mm f4 zoom lens at 400mm with 1.4x teleconverter, ISO 2000, f8, 1/2000 sec.
Hide shelf platform with ball head.
Cropped image about 80% of frame.
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